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Linda Black-Kurek Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYTON ART INSTITUTE | $127,500 |
| DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $45,000 |
| GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION | $44,025 |
| VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE BIG HOOPLA INC | $5,000 |
| WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +99% since the first grant, against +85% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DCDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL8× · 2017–2024 · $575k · revenue +140%
- TGTHE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $164k · revenue +25%
- FLFirst Lady's Charitable Foundation2× · 2022–2023 · $75k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER MIAMI VALLEY INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +7%
- BLBELLBROOK LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION COMMONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +85%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To promote, support, and facilitate meritorious biomedical and health services research and education activities conducted by investigators at the dayton va medical center that contribute to improve healthcare for veterans and the general…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Dayton children's hospital foundation (the foundation) exists solely to benefit dayton children's hospital, dayton, ohio (dch), and to assist dch in performing its charitable mission.
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Dayton history's purpose is to promote and disseminate historical knowledge of dayton and montgomery county, ohio and the surrounding miami valley region, to collect and preserve historical materials, to restore and maintain local…
The hospice of dayton, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability to pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards. our…
Promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
An athletic conference of 10 universities and colleges in oh. the conferences responsibility is to oversee all inter-collegiate athletic events; including tournaments, playoff assignments to officials. maintain a proper balance between…
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wright State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bellbrook Lions Club Foundation Common. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds First Lady's Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Wright State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER MIAMI VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BELLBROOK LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION COMMON ↗
- Who funds The Big Hoopla Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dayton Children's Hospital · Miami Valley Hospital · Mathile Family Foundation · The CareSource Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Synchrony Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Linda Black-Kurek Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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